Dish holder and stand



April 1951 L. A. WICKLAND 2,547,844

DISH HOLDER AND STAND Filed April 18, 1949 Inventor 20 Lawrence .4. Wick/and Patented Apr. 3, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DISH HOLDER AND STAND Lawrence A. Wickland, Altadena, (Jalif.

Application April 18, 1949, Serial No. 88,172

3 Claims. (01. 6561) This invention relates to a dish holder and stand-and has for its primary object to support a dish such as a handled casserole orbaking dish in spaced relation to a supporting surface. A In using glass baking dishes, in which hot foods or'the like are served directly from the oven, difficulty is encountered through the injury to table tops, supporting surfaces and the like through contact of the hot dish therewith and as a result heat insulating pads are frequently employed to hold the dish in spaced relation to the supporting surface. Even when such expedients are resorted to the varnish of a highly finished surface is likely to become softened to an extent sufficient to cause the fibres from which the pads are made to stick to the supporting surface and produce anunsightly spot which ,in many instancesicannot be eradicated without refinishing the entire surface. I

The primary object of this invention is to avoid the marring of supporting surfaces upon which hot dishes may be deposited.

Another object is to facilitate the handling of hot-dishes and transferring them from the oven to a table or the like from which the food contained inthe dish is to be served.

The above and other objects may be attained by employing this invention which embodies among its features a dish supporting leg, a dish handle engaging arm carried by the leg and extending outwardly therefrom and a dish edge engaging clip carried by the arm for detachably securing the leg to the dish handle in such a position that the dish may be supported in spaced relation to a supporting surface.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a handled dish of the type commonly employed in the baking and serving of foodstuffs;

Figure 2 is a fragmentary enlarged sectional view taken substantially along the line 22 of Figure l, and

Figure 3 is a fragmentary horizontal sectional view taken substantially along the line 33 of Figure 1.

Referring to the drawings in detail a conventional baking dish designated generally it comprises a bottom II having formed integral therewith upstanding side walls I2, and upstanding end walls I3. The end walls l3 are provided at their upper edges with outwardly extending handles I4 to which my dish holders designated generally I5 are detachably connected as will be more fully hereinafter described. Each detachable stand or dish holder comprises a leg portion surface.

2 I8, opposite side edges of which diverge to form a relatively broad foot portion IT. The leg It is preferably stamped from sheet metal, and formed at its upper end and extending outwardly therefrom is a handle engaging arm I8. As illus trated the arm I8 is formed at the convergent end of the leg I6, and lies at an obtuse angle with relation thereto so as to conform to the contour of the outer face of the end wall I3 of the dish and the underside of an adjacent handle thereof, thus to form a support upon which the dish may rest. The leg is is of a length greater than the depth of the end wall of the dish It) so that it will project below the bottom I2 of the dish as illustrated in Figure 2, to support the bottom of the dish inspaced relation to a supporting Formed integral with the arm I8 and extending from the edge thereof remote from the leg It at an obtuse angle with relation thereto is a tongue I9 which is of considerable less width than thev arm I8 as will be readily understood upon reference to Figure 3.

Encircling the arm I8 is a C-shaped spring 26, one jaw member of which engages the leg It at its junction with the arm I8, and formed in said spring zfi'remote from the jaw members thereof are spaced parallel elongated longitudinal slots 2| and 22. A suitable handle member 23 extends through the slot 22 and projects outwardly from the spring 20 in a direction opposite the jaw members thereof, and the tongue 59 of the arm I8 extends through the slot 2I so that when pressure is applied on the handle member 23 and tongue I9 to advance them toward one another,

the jaw members of the spring 20 will be opened.-

Welded or otherwise fixed to the tongue I9 and overlying the exterior of the spring 29 adjacent the slot ZI is a stop member 2i which, being substantially wider than the tongue, also serves as a grip for cooperation with thehandle member 23 in opening the jaws of the spring 253 and also a grip by which the user may lift the device when it is in place on a dish.

In use a dish to be lifted and supported in spaced relation to a surface is first extracted from the oven after whichthe two stands are moved toward the sides or ends of the dish carrying the handles I4 with the jaws of the C- spring 20 held open. The foot I! of each leg I6 is then advanced beneath the dish bottom I2 and upon rocking the legs I6 upwardly, the arms I8 will be brought into engagement with the undersides of the handles I4. When the arms l8 fully engage the undersides of the handles I4, the legs I6 will lie in spaced relation to the portions of the dish immediately below the handles as suggested in Figure 2, and upon releasing the pressure on the spring 29, the jaws thereof will close into engagement with the legs l6 adjacent the junction with the arm I8 and the opposite jaw of the Spring will engage the handle l4 adjacent its junction with the wall I3 of the dish It), thus firmly clamping the stands on the dish. The stop members I4 may then be employed as grips to facilitate the carryin of the dish, and upon lifting the dish it may be transported to the surface upon which it is to be supported and the feet I! of the legs 16 will rest on the surface with the dish bottom I 2 in spaced relation thereto. In this way the dish will be held in spaced relation to the surface upon which. it is supported and a space will be formed between the bottom of the dish and the surface for the circulation of air so that heat radiated downwardly from the bottom of the dish will be dissipated before injury can occur to the surface upon which the feet rest.

While in the foregoing there has been shown and described the preferred embodiment of this invention, it is to be understood that minor changes in the details of construction and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departin from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. In a detachable dish holderand stand, a dish supporting leg, a dish handle engaging arm carried by said leg and extending outwardly therefrom, a longitudinally split tubular spring carried by the arm in encircling relation therewith, one longitudinal edge of said spring engaging the leg at its junction with the arm and urging the arm against the underside of a dish handle, and the opposite edge of said sprin engaging the top of the dish handle adjacentits junction with the dish.

2. In a detachable dish holder and stand, a dish supporting leg, a dish handle engaging arm carried by said leg and extending outwardly therefrom, a longitudinally split tubular spring carried by the arm in encircling relation therewith, one longitudinal edge of said sprin engaging the leg at its junction with the arm and urgin the arm against the underside of a dish handle and the opposite edge of said spring engaging the top of the dish handle adjacent its junction with the dish, and a spring releasing lever carried by the tubular spring and projecting outwardly therefrom on the side thereof remote from the leg for coaction with said arm.

3. In a detachable dish holder and stand, a dish supporting leg adapted to engage the side of a handled dish beneath the handle thereof and hold the bottom of the dish in spaced relation to a supporting surface, an arm carried by the leg and extending outwardly therefrom, said arm engaging the under side of a handle on said dish, a tongue carried by the arm and extending angularly therefrom at an acute angle to the leg, a longitudinally split tubular spring having an elongated longitudinal slot therein circumferentially spaced from the split thereof, the tongue on the arm extending through the slot and the arm extending through the split in the spring, a grip member carried by the tongue and holding said arm and spring assembled, and a lever carried by the spring and extending outwardly therefrom for cooperation with the grip member in opening the spring along the split therein.

LAWRENCE A. WICKLAND.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Birkin Dec. 3, 1946 

